3 days ago
nelson : Beijing Olympics photos - Phenomenal collection of architecture photographs
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17 days ago
Linkorama : Deconstructing Twitter - Today we get the latest full ongoing iterative back-filling explanation of Twitter and XMPP.
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20 days ago
Simon Willison : Queue everything and delight everyone - Queue everything and delight everyone. Les Orchard explains why I’ve been getting interested in queues recently: “One of the problems it seems most modern web apps face is the tendency to want to do everything all at once, and all in the same code t
Rod Begbie : Queue everything and delight everyone - Good thoughts from Les Orchard -- Your webapps don't have to do all your work the second a user clicks the button on a form. Queue up tasks and respond quickly, and everyone wins. #
Linkorama : Queue everything and delight everyone - The idea here is that the social structure can help you scale, while still delighting people.
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21 days ago
Richard Rutter : Graph Paper - Graph paper for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. Useful for wireframing UIs, story boarding, interaction etc..
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29 days ago
gleuschk : in action: a skyscraper's amazing 728-ton stabilising ball | deputydog - zowie
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30 days ago
Linkorama : Diary of a Failed Startup - I'm going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit's Law: "Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization".
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1 month ago
Linkorama : Please reshape the enterprise software market - And I drool over his graphics, but ask the same question as above. How does it make the life of folks in the warehouse, field, trading, hospital or plant floor better?
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1 month ago
Linkorama : Why multi-tenancy matters - I think a lot of people coming from outside the SaaS world believe that multi-tenancy is overrated. Intacct’s Aaron Harris has helped illuminate why so many of the most experienced SaaS providers believe multi-tenancy is fundamental to what they do.
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Linkorama : 10 Architectural Principles for Enterprise Social Software - Take 2 - All this needs now is a review of a few eyes and I think a re-order perhaps to reflect importance a bit better.
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1 month ago
Greg Storey : Construction photos of the China Central Television Tower. - "...it isn't just the leaning tower aspect that is intriguing, it's the balancing of the whole middle section in the middle of thin air that is also jaw dropping."
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1 month ago
gleuschk : Mystery on Fifth Avenue - NYTimes.com - awesome little things like this make it worth waking up in the morning. also makes me not completely hate the idea of remodeling
Greg Storey : "I was thinking that maybe there could be a game or a scavenger hunt embedded in the apartment — that was the beginning" - Noted for when I build a house. Stu, take notes please.
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2 month ago
philgyford : Corporation of London - Development & planning - Planning applications - Proposal to create a brand new flat at the bottom of one of the Barbican towers, in a "void space". See the PLANNING REPORT for some pics.
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2 month ago
deusx : Twitter Technology Blog: Twittering About Architecture - "our existing system will be maintained while new parts are built, and old parts swapped out for new as they're completed. The alternative - scrapping everything for "the big rewrite" - is untenable, particularly given our small (but growin
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nelson : Redneck Mansion - Awesome looking collection of linked trailers
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3 month ago
plasticbag : Nice little piece on swarming structures that the author thinks could be an angle for future architectures - I'm not sure I like the sense of grazing and herding architectures. Although superficially bucolic, it has something horrible and locust-like about it if you think for any period of time.
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4 month ago
Greg Storey : Open Architecture Network. - I hope this works as well as it looks.
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4 month ago
Greg Storey : Getting the Golden Gate Strait. - Wow, I'm gonna have to have this book.
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4 month ago
jcgregorio : The Accidental Environmentalists - "over that time 92 percent of the organization’s costs goes to employees, 6 percent go to maintenance and operation, and a mere 2 percent are represented by the initial construction investment." Many of my previous employers never got thi
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4 month ago
Linkorama : 15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing - If you peel back the label and its says “Grid” or “OGSA” underneath… its not a cloud.
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philgyford : Cityofsound: Robin Hood Gardens is not the same as a digital model of Robin Hood Gardens - Dan Hill's excellent summary of the protest going on over plans to demolish the London housing estate. I hope they renovate rather than destroy.
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gleuschk : Create your unique style using our layout planning tools | Plan my Room | mydeco - no kitchens yet -- wonder if there's some way I can be notified when there are?
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philgyford : Redland Green School Overspend - The Report | James Barlow - Nice deadpan assessment of an apparently poor report into the £6.4 million overspend on construction of a new Bristol school. (via the Bristol Blogger)
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philgyford : Bristol UWE - In Pictures - Bower Ashton development gallery - My old college has got a swanky new hi-tech building.
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6 month ago
Greg Storey : Midcentury Storefront Design 1938-1950. - Love, love, love it. Sold.
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Greg Storey : One-hundred-and-one of the worlds most exciting new architects. - Note the navigation arrows that get you around the surface of the presentation. Nifty.
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